Based on transcripts of various lectures given by Yusuf Estes & Dr. Gary Miller

Introduction

It should be stated at the outset of this work, that Muslims do not seek to
put down or desecrate the Holy Bible. It is a critical matter of faith
for Muslims to believe in the original revelations that came down to Moses,
David, Solomon and Jesus, just as it is important for Muslims to believe
in the revelation of the Quran that came to Muhammad (peace be upon him). The
key word here however, is "original." As we all know the origin of the Bible
is clouded with centuries of copying, translating and passing down information,
now long lost with only copies of manuscripts remaining to remind us of what
once was the Bible.

Additionally, it should be noted that Muslims do not seek to destroy the Christians
or Jews belief in the Word of God, rather it is an obligation for Muslims
to call to what is right and to halt that which is evil. Certainly, causing
the "People of the Book" (as the Quran refers to Christians and Jews) to fall
into disbelief and leave off any faith in God at all, is the very opposite
of the direction Muslims should take in presenting any comparison between
Islam and what has come down in the past from the Almighty God. We only seek
to bring about more light to the people seeking guidance and pray for all
of us to be successful with our Lord in this life and in the Next life and
we ask His Guidance and Support in doing so, ameen.

The Bible

Old Testament

There exists today a number of different versions in the ancient Hebrew language
of the Jewish Book called the Torah [Law] and this is usually referred to
in Christianity as The Old Testament. Naturally, there have been many different
translations to a great number of languages over the centuries and one could
not expect them to be identical in text or meaning. What we have in English
today still remains somewhat similar to large amounts of these older documents.

New Testament

There are also different versions of the Gospel or what is commonly called
The New Testament in the Koine Greek language and Latin and these also have
many translations to even other languages. Even amongst the English translations
there are great differences. To mention two very clear differences for example;
the Catholic Bible [c. 325 A.D] contains 73 books in total, while the Protestant
Bible contains only 66 books, and although the newer (Protestant version)
was taken from the Catholic Bible even then these books do not match completely
with each other. There is no common denominator for any of the many different
versions of the Bible.

Dead Sea Scrolls

There have been a number of scrolls and parchments found in places surrounding
what we call the "Holy Land" over the centuries, not the least of which are
those often referred to as the "Dead Sea Scrolls" or as they are known to
the scholars "Wadi Qumran Scrolls." These were discovered in the last century
around 1930 and have been proven to be very ancient and could well be older
than any other extant manuscripts. Much of what has been translated from these
scrolls is similar to some of the oldest manuscripts, but there are still
very important differences worthy of note. We would like to recommend some
important reading on this topic at the end of this paper.

The Quran

Quran Means "Recitation"

The word "Quran" means "that which is recited; or that which is dictated
in memory form." As such, it is not only a book, nor is it something that reaches
us only in written form. The documentation in writing about the Quran has
been preserved in museums throughout the world, including the Topekopi Palace
in Istanbul, Turkey, the museum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and also in England. The Quran is still printed up to this day with the verification and supervision of councils of scholars who have the Quran down to memory and who make sure there are no printing mistakes.

Only One Version - Arabic

There are no different versions of the Quran in the Arabic language, only
different translations and of course, none of these would be considered to
hold the value and authenticity of the original Arabic Recitation. The Quran
is divided up into 30 equal parts, called "Juz'" (parts) in the Arabic language.
These are learned by Muslims from their very early beginnings as children.

Memorized by Millions - Entirely

The important thing to keep in mind about the Quran is the memorization and
transmission of the actual "Recitation" just as it came to Muhammad
(peace be upon him) from the Angel Gabriel and was learned and memorized by
his companions and they in turn, passed it down to their followers and continued
in this way until we see today, over 10,000,000 (ten million) Muslims who
have committed the entire Quran to memory. This is not a small feat. After
all, how many other works of literary value have been memorized and passed
down through so many generations, in the original language, without a single
change in even one sentence?

Each Muslim Has "Quran" Memorized

All Muslims have memorized a portion of the Quran in the Arabic language,
as this is an important part of their daily prayers. Many Muslims have memorized
large portions of the Quran from one tenth to one half to all of the entire
Quran, and all in the original Arabic language. It should be noted, there
are over one and a half billion (1,500,000,000) Muslims worldwide and only
about 10% are Arab, all the rest are learning the Quran in Arabic as a second
language.

God Speaks in First Person to Mankind in Quran

The Quran contains clear statements from Almighty God (Allah) and it is Him
speaking to all of us in the first person. He tells of us our own creation,
the creation of all that is the universe and what has happened to those before
us and what is to become of us if we do not take heed of the warnings clearly
spelled out in His Revelation. He speaks also to Muhammad (peace be upon him)
to show that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is not making this up himself and
even chastises Muhammad (peace be upon him) for making human assumptions rather
than waiting for revelation in matters (i.e.; surah At-Tahrim and surah Abasa).

Quran Mentions Itself

The Quran refers to itself as "The Quran" (The Recitation) and mentions that
it is to all mankind and jinn (another creation of Allah, similar to humans
in that they could make choices as to whether or not they would obey God's
Commandments, and they existed before humans).

Quran Describes God's Nature Exactly

The Quran is clear on who God is and who He is not. There is no room left
for doubt after reading the Quran in the Arabic language: God is One. He is
the only Creator, Sustainer and Owner of the Universe. He has no partners.
He has no relatives; wives, children or offspring. He is not like His creation
and He does not need it for His existence, while all the time the creation
is totally dependent on Him. His attributes are clearly spelled out as the
epitome of each and every one. He is for instance, the All-Knowing; the All-Hearing;
the All-Seeing; the All-Forgiving; the All- Loving; the All-Merciful; the
Only One God. There is never a contradiction to this found anywhere in the
Quran.

Quran Challenges Readers

The Quran makes the clear challenge, that if you are in doubt about it - then
bring a book like it. Also, to bring ten chapters like it and then finally,
to bring one single chapter like it. 1,400 years - and no one has been able
to duplicate its beauty, recitation, miracles and ease of memorization. Another
challenge for the unbelievers to consider;

"If this (Quran) were from other than Allah, you would find within it
many contradictions."

And yet, another challenge offered by Allah in the Quran is for the unbelievers
to look around for evidences. Allah says He will show them His signs within
themselves and on the farthest horizons.

Scientific Miracles in Quran

The scientific miracles of the Quran could not have been understood at that
time, yet today we take for granted the many things included in the revelation
of the Quran. Some include mentioning: The formation of embryo in the womb
of the mother (surah 98); deep seas partitions; waters that do not mix; clouds
and how they make rain and how lightning is caused by ice crystals; formation
of the earth's mountains deep underground; orbits of planets and stars and
moons - and even the mention of space travel (surah 55:33).

[Watch videos of world's top scientists commenting on the "Miracle of Science in Quran"]

Bible is Collection of WritingsQuran is Recitation From God to Muhammad (peace be upon him)

Whereas, The Bible is a collection of writings by many different authors,
the Quran is a dictation (or recitation). The speaker in the Quran - in the first person - is God Almighty (Allah) talking directly to man. In the Bible you have many men writing about
God and you have in some places the word of
God speaking to men and still in other places you have some men simply writing
about history or personal exchanges of information to one another (ex: Epistle
of John 3). The Bible in the English King James Version consists of 66 small
books. About 18 of them begin by saying: This is the revelation God gave to
so and so… The rest make no claim as to their origin. You have for example
the beginning of the book of Jonah which begins by saying: The word of the
Lord came to Jonah the son of Elmitaeh saying… quote and then it continues
for two or three pages.

Compare this to the beginning of the Book of "Luke" begins by saying:
“In as much as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those
things which have been fulfilled among us, (2) Just as those who from the
beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to
us, (3) It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all
things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent
Theophilus, (4) That you may know the certainty of those things in which
you were instructed.

We see the author of the Book of "Luke" saying essentially, "Many people
have written about things, it seems fitting for me to do so too.” "Luke"
says it seems to him that as long as others are taking in hand to write
something about it, even though they were eye witnesses to the whole thing,
he feels that even though he was not, he still has "perfect understanding
of all things from the very first."

Therefore this is only a letter from one person to another, neither of
whom knew Jesus (peace be upon him) nor were eyewitnesses to any of what
had taken place.

[Y. Estes]

If you compare that to one of the four accounts of the life of Jesus, Luke
begins by saying: “many people have written about this man, it seems fitting
for me to do so too”. That is all… no claim of saying “ these words were given
to me by God here they are for you it is a revelation”, there is no mention
of this.

"Bible" is NOT in the Bible

The Bible does not contain self-reference, that is, the word 'Bible' is not
in the Bible. Nowhere does the Bible talk about itself. Some scriptures are
sometimes pointed to in the Bible, say: Here where it talks about itself,
but we have to look closely. 2nd Timothy 3:16 is the favorite which reads:
“All scripture is inspired of God” and there are those who would say, here
is where the Bible it talks about itself, it says it is inspired of God, all
of it. But if you read the whole sentence, you read that this was a letter
wrote by Paul to Timothy and the entire sentence says to Timothy: “Since you
were a young man you have studied the holy scriptures, all scriptures inspired
by God” and so on… When Timothy was a young man the New Testament did not
exist, the only thing that stems he was talking about are scriptures – which
are only a portion of the Bible - from before that time. It could not have
meant the whole Bible.

Bible Curses Church Fathers Who REMOVED Book of Revelations

There is at the end of the Bible a verse which says:

"For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this
book (Revelations): if anyone adds to these things, God will add to him
the plagues that are written in this book:

And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
god shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city,
and from the things which are written in this book.

[Y. Estes]

“Let anyone who takes away from this book or adds to this book be cursed”.
This too is sometimes pointed to me saying: Here is where it sums itself as
a whole. But look again and you will see that when it says: Let no one change
this book, it is talking about that last book, #66 (or is it #73 in the Catholic
Bible?), the Book of Revelation. It has too, because any reference will tell
you that the Book of Revelation was written before certain other parts of
the Bible were written. It happens today to be stacked at the end, but there
are other parts that came after, so it can not be referring to the entire
book.

(Incidentally, according to different manuscripts much older than the King
James Version, there are different words at the end of the Book of Revelation,
so how would we resolve that matter? - Y.E.)

Note: The Book of Revelation was taken out of the Bible several times and
then replaced and then taken out and replaced according to various Church
Councils throughout Church history. Guess the Church Fathers didn't read the
curse at the end of the book?

Whose Word Is It?

It is an extreme position held only by some Christian groups that the Bible
– in its entirety - cover to cover is the revealed word of God in every word,
but they do a clever thing when they mention this, or make this claim. They
will say that the Bible in its entirety is the word of God; inerrant (no mistakes)
in the original writings.

So if you go to the Bible and point out some mistakes that are in it you are
going to be told: Those mistakes were not there in the original manuscript,
they have crept in so that we see them there today.

They are going on problem in that position. There is a verse in the Bible
Isaiah 40:8 which in fact is so well known that some Bibles printed it on
the inside front cover as an introduction and it says : “ The grass weathers,
the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever”. Here is a claim
in the Bible that the word of God will stand forever, it will not be corrupted,
it won't be lost. So if today you find a mistake in the Bible you have two
choices. Either that promise was false that when God said my word wont fade
away, he was mistaken, or the portion which has the mistake in it was not
a part of the word of God in the first place, because the promise was that
it would be safeguarded, it would not be corrupted.

Are There Mistakes?

I have suggested many times that there are mistakes in the Bible and the accusation
comes back very quickly: Show me one. Well there are hundreds. If you want
to be specific I can mention few. You have for example at 2nd Samuel 10:18
a description of a war fought by David saying that he killed 7000 men and
that he also killed 40000 men on horsebacks. In 1st Chronicles 19 it mentions
the same episode saying that he killed 70000 men and the 40000 men were not
on horsebacks, they were on foot. The point is what is the difference between
the pedestrian and not is very fundamental.

How Did Judas Die?

Matthew 27:5 says that Judas Iscariot when he died he hung himself. Acts 1
says that, no he jumped off a cliff head first. If you study Logic very soon
you will come in your course to what they call an “undecidable propositions”
or “meaningless sentences” or statements that can not be decided because there
is no contextual false. One of the classic examples sited is something called
the Effeminates paradox. This man was Cretan and he said “Cretans always lie”,
now was that statement true or false? If he was a Cretan and he says that
they always lie is he lying? If he is not lying then he is telling the truth
then the Cretans don’t always lie ! You see it can not be true and it can
not be false, the statement turns back on itself. It is like saying “What
I am telling you right now is a lie” would you believe that or not? You see
the statement has no true content. It can not be true and it can not be false.
If it is true it is always false. If it is false it is also true.

Well in the Bible at Titus 1:12 the writer is Paul and he is talking about
the Cretans. He says that one of their own men – a prophet - said “Cretans
always lie” and he says that what this man says is true. It is a small mistake,
but the point is that it is a human mistake, you don’t find that if you carefully
examine the true content of that statement. It can not be a true statement.

Who is the Author?

Now I come back to the Quran, and as I mentioned the speaker in the Quran
is - in the first person - is God. The book claims throughout that it is the
word of God. It names itself 70 times as the Quran. It talks about its own
contents. It has self-reference. The Quran states in the first Surah after
Fatiha that “This is the book, there is no doubt in it, it is a guidance for
those who are conscious of God” and so on and so on… It begins that way and
continues that way stressing that. And there is one very amazing statement
in the Quran when you come to the fourth Surah 82nd Ayah which says to those
who say Quran is something else than the word of God. It challenges them saying:
“Have they not considered the Quran, if it came from someone other than God
they will find in it many mistakes”. Some of you are students, would you dare
to hand in a paper after you completed a research work or something at the
bottom you put down there “You won't find mistakes in this”. Would you dare
to challenge your professor that way? Well the Quran does that. It is telling:
If you really think you know where this came from then starts looking for
mistakes because you won't find any. Another interesting thing the Quran does
is that it quotes all its critics. There has never - in hundreds of years
- ever been some suggestion as to where that book came from but that the Quran
does not already mention that objection and reply to it. Many times you will
find the Ayah saying something like: Do they say such and such and so, say
to them such and such and so. In every case there is a reply. More than that
the Quran claims that the evidence of its origin is in itself, and that if
you look at this book you will be convinced.

Difference of Authority

So the difference in Christianity and Islam comes down to a difference of
authority and appeal to authority. The Christian wants to appeal to the Bible
and the Muslim wants to appeal to the Quran. You can not stop by saying: This
is true because me book say it is, and somebody else would say something else
is true because my book says differently, you can not stop at that point,
and the Quran does not. The Christians may point to some words that it is
recorded Jesus said and say this proves my point. But the Muslim does not
simply open his book and say: No, no the Quran says this, because the Quran
does not simply deny something the Bible says and say something else instead.
The Quran takes the form of a rebuttal, it is a guidance as the opening says
(Huda lil mutakeen). So that for every suggestion that the Christian may say:
My Bible say such and such, the Quran will not simply say: No that is not
true, it will say: Do they say such and such then ask them such and such.
You have for example the Ayah that compares Jesus and Adam. There are those
who may say that Jesus must have been God (Son of God) because he had no father.
He had a woman who was his mother, but there was no human father. It was God
that gave him life, so he must have been God’s son. The Quran reminds the
Christian in one short sentence to remember Adam - who was his father ? -
and in fact, who was his mother ? He did not have a father either and in fact
he did not have a mother, but what does that make him? So that the likeness
of Adam is the likeness of Jesus, they were nothing and then they became something;
that they worship God.

Quran Invites - Not Demands

So that the Quran does not demand belief - the Quran invites belief, and here
is the fundamental difference. It is not simply delivered as: Here is what
you are to believe, but throughout the Quran the statements are always: Have
you O man thought of such and such, have you considered so and so. It is always
an invitation for you to look at the evidence; now what do you believe?

Special Pleading of the Bible

The citation of the Bible very often takes the form of what is called in Argumentation:
Special Pleading. Special Pleading is when implications are not consistent.
When you take something and you say: Well that must mean this, but you don’t
use the same argument to apply it to something else. To give an example, I
have seen it in publications many times, stating that Jesus must have been
God because he worked miracles. In other hand we know very well that there
is no miracle ever worked by Jesus that is not also recorded in the Old Testament
as worked by one of the prophets. You had amongst others, Elijah, who is reported
to have cured the leper, raise the dead boy to life and to have multiplied
bread for the people to eat - three of the most favorite miracles cited by
Jesus. If the miracles worked by Jesus proved he was God, why don’t they prove
Elijah was God ? This is Special Pleading, if you see what I mean. The implications
are not consistent. If this implies that then in that case it must also imply
the same thing. We have those who would say Jesus was God because he was taken
up in the heaven. But the Bible also says a certain Einah did not die
he was taken up into the heaven by God. Whether it is true or not, who knows,
but the point is if Jesus being taken up proves he is God, why does not it
prove Einah was God? The same thing happened to him.

Clear Parts & Difficult Parts of Bible

I wrote to a man one time, who wrote a book about Christianity and I had some
of the objections I mentioned to you now. And his reply to me was that I am
making matters difficult to myself, that there are portions in the Bible that
are crystal clear and that there are portions that are difficult, and that
my problem was that I am looking at the difficult part instead of the clear
parts. The problem is that this is an exercise in self deception - why are
some parts clear and some parts difficult? It is because somebody decided
what this clearly means, now that makes this very difficult. To give you an
example, John Chapter 14 a certain man said to Jesus: Show us God, and Jesus
said: If you have seen me you have seen God. Now without reading on the Christian
will say: See Jesus claimed to be God, he said if you have seen me you have
seen God. If that is crystal clear then you have a difficult portion when
you go back just a few pages to Chapter 5 when another man came to Jesus and
said show us God and he said you have never seen God you have never heard
his voice. Now what did he mean there if on the other occasion he meant that
he was God? Obviously you have made matters difficult by deciding what the
first one meant. If you read on in Chapter 14 you will see what he went on
to say. He was saying the closest you are going to seeing God are the works
you see me doing.

Bible Does Not Claim Jesus Claimed to Be Son of God

It is a fact that the words “son of God” are not found on the lips of Jesus
anywhere in the first three Gospel accounts, he was always calling himself
the Son of Man. And it is a curious form of reasoning that I have seen so
often that it is established from Bible that he claimed to be God because
- look how the Jews reacted. They will say for example he said such and such
and the Jews said he is blaspheming, he claimed to be God and they tried to
stone him. So they argue that he must have been claiming to be God because
look ! - the Jews tried to kill him. They said that’s what he was claiming.
But the interesting thing is that all the evidence is then built on the fact
that a person is saying: I believed that Jesus was the son of God because
the Jews who killed him said that’s what he used to say ! His enemies used
to say that, so he must have said it, this is what it amounts to. In other
hand we have the words of Jesus saying he would keep the law, the law of Moses
and we have the statement in the Bible, why did the Jews kill him ? Because
he broke the law of Moses. Obviously the Jews misunderstood him, if he promised
he would keep the law, but they killed him because he broke the law, they
must have misunderstood him, or lied about him.

Writers of Bible - Out of Context

When I talk about the Bible and quote various verses here and there I am often
accused of putting things out of context, to say you have lifted something
out of what it was talking about and given it a meaning. I don’t want to respond
to the accusation as such, but it doesn’t seem to occur to many people that
perhaps those who wrote portions of the Bible in the first place were guilty
of the same thing. Maybe they – some of those writers - believed a certain
thing and in order to prove it quoted from their scriptures – the Old Testament,
the Hebrew writings - quoted out of context to prove their point. There are
examples of that kind of thing. In Matthew 2 it said that a king wanted to
kill the young child Jesus so he with his family went to Egypt, and they stayed
there until that king died, and then they came back.

When the writer of Matthew, whoever he was, because the name Matthew won't
be found in the book of Matthew; when he described this event saying that
he came back out of Egypt, he said: “ This was to fulfill a prophecy which
is written” and then he quotes Hosea Chapter 11 “Out of Egypt I called my
Son”. So he said because Jesus went to Egypt and then came back out of Egypt
and we have this passage in the Hebrew scriptures “out of Egypt I called my
son” Jesus must have been the son of God. If you look and see what he was
quoting, Hosea 11:1 he quotes the second half of a complete sentence, the
complete sentence reads: “When Israel was young I loved him and out of Egypt
I called my son”. Israel the nation was considered as the son of God. Moses
was told to go to Pharaoh and say to him: If you touch that nation of people,
you touch my son; warning him, warning Pharaoh: don’t touch that nation, calling
the nation “the son of God”. So that this is the only thing talked about in
Hosea 11:1. “Out of Egypt I called my son” can only refer to the nation of
Israel. I mentioned this point some months ago here in another talk, to which
a young lady with us objected that Israel is a symbolic name for Jesus. You
will have a hard time finding that anywhere in the Bible because it isn’t
there. You can take an index of the Bible and lookup the word “Israel” everywhere
the word occurs and you will find no where in any place that you can connect
the word Israel with Jesus. But never mind - suppose it is true, read on,
the second verse says “and after that he kept on worshipping Bal”, because
this is what the Israelites were guilty of, very often they kept falling back
into Idol worshipping. So if that “Israel” really meant Jesus and it means
that Jesus is the son of God that came out of Egypt they must also mean that
Jesus from time to time used to bow down to that idol Bal. You have to be
consistent, and follow through on what it says. So the point is whoever wrote
Matthew and Chapter 2 was trying to prove a point by quoting something out
of context, and he undid himself, because if you follow through on it, it
can not be so.

Quran Has Internal Evidences

Now I can come back to the claim the Quran makes that it has internal evidence
of its origin. There are many ways that you can look at this. As one
example, if I single out somebody here and say: You know, I know your father
- he is going to doubt that, he has never seen me with his father. He would
say, how does he look like, is he tall short does he wear glasses? And so
on, and if I give him the right answers pretty soon he will get convinced,
“Oh yes, you did meet him”. If you apply the same kind of thinking when you
look at the Quran, here is a book that says it came from the one who was there
when the universe began. So you should be asking that one: So tell me something
that proves it. Tell me something that shows me you must have been there when
the universe was beginning. You will find in two different Ayahs the statement
that all the creation began from a single point, and from this point it is
expanding. In 1978 they gave the Noble prize to two people who proved that
that's the case. It is the big bang origin of the universe. It was determined
by the large radio receivers that they have for the telephone companies which
were sensitive enough to pick up the transmissions from satellites and it
kept finding background noise that they could not account for. Until the only
explanation came to be, it is the left over energy from that original explosion
which fits in exactly as would be predicted by the mathematical calculation
of what would be this thing if the universe began from a single point and
exploded outwards. So they confirmed that, but in 1978. Centuries before that
here is the Quran saying the heavens and the earth in the beginning they were
one piece and split and says in another Ayah : “of the heavens we are expanding
it”.

Quran Has Exact Accuracy

Let me tell you about a personal investigation, it occurred to me that there
are a number of things you can find in the Quran that give evidence to its
origin – internal evidence. If the Quran is dictated from a perfect individual;
it originates with God, then there should not be any wasted space, it should
be very meaningful. There should be nothing that we don’t need that you can
cut off, and it should not be missing anything. And so that everything in
there should really be there for a specific purpose. And I got to thinking
about the Ayah which I mentioned before, it says, the likeness of Jesus is
the likeness of Adam. It is an equation, it uses the Arabic word (mithel), it
says Jesus, Adam, equal. You go to the index of the Quran, you look up the
name ISA it is in the Quran 25 times, you lookup the name Adam it is there
25 times. They are equal, through scattered references but 25 of each. Follow
that through and you will find that in the Quran there are 8 places were an
Ayah says something is like something else, using this (Mithel), you will
find in every case and take both sides of it whatever that word is look it
up in the index and it will be lets say 110 times and lookup the other word
and it will be said to be equal to the same 110. That is quite a project of
co-ordination if you try to write a book that way yourself. So that everywhere
you happened to mention that such and such is like such and such that then
you check your index, filing system, or your IBM punch cards or whatever,
to make sure that in this whole book you mentioned them both the same number
of times. But that’s what you will find in the Quran.

Quran Provides Reason

What I am talking about is built on a thing that is called in Logic: Use and
Mention of a Word. When you use a word, you are using its meaning. When you
mention a word, you are talking about the symbol without the meaning. For
example, if I say Toronto is a big city - I used the word Toronto as I meant
this place Toronto is a big city. But if I say to you Toronto has 7 letters,
I am not talking about this place Toronto, I am talking about this word -
Toronto. So, the revelation is above reasoning, but it is not above reason.
That is to say we are more apt not to find in the Quran something that is
unreasonable, but we may find something that we would have never figured out
for ourselves.

Unique Word Refers to Itself in Quran

The author of this sentence said if this book came from someone besides God
then you will find in it many Ikhtalafan (inconsistencies). The word Ikhtilaf
is found many times in the Quran. But the word Ikhtalafan is only found once
in the Quran. So there are not many Ikhtilafan in the Quran, there is only
one - where the sentence is mentioned. So you see how things are put together
perfectly. It has been suggested to mankind: Find a mistake. Man could not
get hold of a mistake, and he is very clever, because this sentence could
also mean: Find many Iktilafan and so he quickly goes to the index to see
if he can find many of them and there is only one... Sorry clever person.

[end of Dr. Gary Miller and Yusuf Estes]

Bible And Quran - Originally Both From Allah

Conclusion: Both the Bible and the Quran have come to us by way of Almighty
God, then through His angel Gabriel and then to the prophets (peace be upon
them). However, when the next step comes into play (that of the human beings
faithfully transmitting it on to others and future generations) we find out
that Allah has only preserved His Last and Final Revelation for all times.
And He certainly did not need the humans to do that.

Respect For Holy Books

Muslims should respect the Bible because it does still contain some of the
original teachings of Allah. But there is no need to go to Bible classes or
purchase one to read to try to learn about what our purpose is here in this
life. The Quran makes it clear that Allah has indeed, perfected our "way of
life" for us and has conferred on us His favor and has chosen for us to submit
to Him in Islam.

We would like to suggest to the non-Muslims to consider obtaining a Quran
(order one free through our site if you like) and then investigate for themselves
what the Quran is really all about and what it might mean to them in their
lives.

I would like to state that after years of studying the Bible and then learning
the Arabic language to read the Quran as it was originally recited to Muhammad
(peace be upon him) by the angel Gabriel, I have come to an amazing conclusion.
It seems to me that the Bible and the Quran are most definitely from the exact
same source and they compliment each other very nicely. In fact, it appears
that the Bible does not contradict the Quran, except in the very same places
where the Bible contradicts itself.